HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Senior leaders and staff benefit from enhancing their technical knowledge with natural and learned behaviors like empathy or leadership. The horizontal portion of the T comprised of power/human skills intersects with the vertical portion, containing deep expertise in a specific area of knowledge. Hire a Chief Future Officer (CFO).

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. My regret is that I did not free up my other hip for Human Resources, a group of eager young managers at the rear of the functional pecking order.

CEO 116

CEO CFO Human Resources Real Estate 116

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Tags: Catalyst Women , women in business , businesswomen , female executives , leadership , women on business No related posts, yet. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). in 2005).

Press Release 113

Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. Human Resources, Mark was a great sales guy and was able to plan for work in stable and known environments. His charisma was contagious, he was on hell of a guy.”.

Charisma 129

Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis. For as long as I can remember, the person bonded to the CEO’s hip was the CFO. ” Self-assessment is never easy.

Blog 222

Blog Mission Statement Strategic Planning Brand 222

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book. At this meeting, employees heard from the CEO, CHRO, General Counsel, COO, CFO, CMO, and any business leaders spearheading a major initiative.

CFO 58

CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

VP of Human Resources: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can get access to a large, diverse talent pool.”. The CFO will care about profits. The CFO might be interested but would wonder how profitable those sales will be. He regularly writes about leadership on the thoughtLEADERS Blog.

Metrics 50

Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

Press Release 124

Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items.

Press Release 140

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

I looked around the room at the silent senior leadership of Alentix, all of whom had privately complained to me about Jean''s performance in recent weeks. They knew as much as anyone about leadership. The answer is deceptively simple: There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders.

Leadership 11

Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO. Human resources Leadership Talent management' Yet this evidence is apparently not well-known.

Charan 15

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

Distefano : Over the last number of years we’ve made numerous acquisitions in talent development and leadership development, and [that led us to] acquire more datasets and databases — almost 50 years worth of data for executive levels. Some leadership norms are very specific to a certain company culture, or country culture.

Execution 8

Execution CFO Self-aware Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

The leap into leadership. For instance, Gil Amelio was Apple’s CEO for less than a year in 1997, and General Motors’ chief human resources officer decamped in 2018 after just eight months in the job. For some, this high-profile leadership transition is more than they bargain for.

Henderson 14

Henderson Career CEO Execution 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “You’re surprised?”

Case Study 14

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world.

Execution 16

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Some of the most important insights will come from human capital reporting.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. Ascension centralized functions such as human resources, payroll, travel services, and finance, thereby streamlining operations and saving costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

For all of this to work, employees must trust the program and the employer’s motives, which requires visible CEO leadership. Any CFO knows that businesses invest in many things to improve workplace environments without justifying these costs with an ROI study.

ROI 8

ROI Health Care Company Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

The baby’s got the flu, the employee hasn’t slept in three days, and the annual department budget is due to the CFO’s office. The decision is human, and eminently understandable (what working parent hasn’t faced the same type of situation?).

Stress 15

Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. One executive I talked to complained to me about how much data their human resources department collected each year, but every year he felt that none of the data was used to improve working conditions.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. It was vehicle for changing the growth trajectory of the company.”

Quinn 14

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14